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james joyce- major work
Dubliners (1914)
A collection of 15 short stories, mostly written while Joyce lived in Italy.
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Each story features a moment of epiphany – a brief, often painful realization.
is typically followed by inaction, reinforcing the theme of paralysis.
The final story, “The Dead”, stands apart for its emotional depth and reflection on identity, memory, and mortality.
Joyce described the collection as a “chapter of the moral history of [his] country”, focusing on spiritual and political stagnation in Dublin.
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Set in Dublin on a single day: June 16, 1904 (now celebrated as Bloomsday).
Main characters include:
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tephen Dedalus – a young intellectual and Joyce’s alter ego (also appears in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
Structured to mirror Homer’s Odyssey, with each chapter paralleling an episode from the epic.
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Themes include:
Identity, exile, time, memory, sexuality, language, and myth
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